St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-19
ROTUNDA RIFF.RAFF.
People who Ate at the Hotel Tables
in 81. Paul Yesterday.


Louis Moran, of West Superior, was among
those registered yesterday at the Merchants.
He is a representative of that portion OF Min
nesota that felt the tremor of the wave of
prosperity that rushed across Duluth and
rippled over the townsite of Ashland. He
says West Superior is the place for a man to
plant his loose change if he wants to realize
bountiful increase, for it is sure to be the
great point on the lake in the years to come.
Real estate is changing hands there now in
q way that would scare the average offs pring
of the slow-going communities of the East.
and Improvements are promised and bound
to come that will bring the town to the front.
Buildings are going up with rush and will
continue to do so until shut off by the winter
months. If Duluth grows he thinks she must
grow in that direction without doubt.
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S. Truax, of Walla Walla, Wash. T., was at
the Merchants yesterday. Of that country
and its future. he says it is booming up this
spring with the other portions of the North
west and Immigration has already begun to
pour in. The interstate commerce law will
undoubtedly affect immigration considerably
coming over from the East over the railroads,
but the ocean steamship lines will probably
reap the benefit, and, as Washington territory
is easily accessible by water. immigration to
chat part of the country will not suffer much.
farmers. fruit raisers and business men are
confident of a successful season.
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j. W. Vogel, the merry agent of Thatcher
Primrose & Vests minstrels was in the hands
OF Ehle Allen at the Merchants yesterday
He is here to make arrangements for his
company to play at the Grand. and saws the
show is ''all wool and yard wlde.'' From
conversation with him it was learned that it
costs a 81 eat deal of money to run a first
class minstrel combination nowadays, espe-
eially since the interstate commerce bill mas
Shut Off special rates, and company must
make at least a three nights stand in a city
and play to big business if it make both ends
come squarely together.
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''Blly" Doyle, an ex-Northern Pacific rail-
road conductor, and now prosperous livery
man of Fargo, was at the Merchants yester-
day, with the same gittering diamond in his
necktIe that has glittered there for years.
"Bily" says he don't go cent on politics
and amuses himself by attending strictly to
business, but he thinks the shake down in
Fargo few weeks ago has done that town d
great deal OF good, and some of her enter
prise that has grown letharric during the
past two years shows signs of resuscitatlon
Already arrangements have been made to
erect once more the electric light poles and
give the citizens the benefit Of the artificial
moonlight they have enjoyed until within the
past year. If the town don't pull to the
front it will be no fault of Mayor Edwards,
the heavyweight editor and all-around intel
lectual athlete
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The following ladies formed a pleasant
party at the Merchants yesterday: Mrs.
George Titler, Mrs. Sherwood, Miss Selma
Titler and Miss May Waldrau, of Louisville
KY. Mrs. George Dickson and Miss Olive
Brown, Washington territory.